Setting up justification for a pardon.

The Atlantic continues to hire the best writers and experts in the country. I'm glad I have a subscription.

And if they did, is that a crime?

I think they missed one. Second sentence, $53.2 billion dollars. The word dollars is redundant because there's a dollar sign already.

Oh, just wait until the subsidies and bailouts start flying. The national debt won't matter anymore. It will be "We have to do right by our farmers/auto workers/American people...blah, blah, blah"